diff --git a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
index 1253ded..69ad565 100755
--- a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
+++ b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
@@ -133,11 +133,8 @@ def weekly_tf(partition,
         nullable_schema = True
         
     dataset = ds.dataset(f"{input_parquet}/{partition}", format='parquet')
-    if not os.path.exists(output_10p_sample_path):
-        os.mkdir(output_10p_sample_path)
-
-    if not os.path.exists(temp_output_tfidf_path):
-        os.mkdir(temp_output_tfidf_path)
+    Path(output_10p_sample_path).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    Path(temp_output_tfidf_path).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
     ngram_output = partition.replace("parquet","txt")